For all the hype around non-lithium-ion battery chemistries in the past decade, nothing has really been competitive with the king of batteries. Until now? We’ve been getting intrigued by sodium-ion batteries for a while. Well, you could say going back 9 years , but for EVs and from established companies, it’s really been the past two to three years. In 2021, Steve Hanley covered CATL’s potential sodium-ion batteries . In 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy put out a bullish note on longer-lasting sodium-ion batteries . At the end of 2022, Steve wrote that BYD ( the largest plugin vehicle producer in the world ) might start…
